Hiring Radar Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 18, 2026 (Hiring Radar 2.4.4). This policy covers Hiring Radar, the Chrome extension made by Work Insiders. In short: Hiring Radar works inside your browser and keeps what it finds and what you save in your own Chrome profile. It has no account and no tracking, and it sends nothing to Work Insiders unless you turn on anonymous usage counts. It never sells or shares your data.

What does Hiring Radar do?

Hiring Radar is a hiring research tool for recruiters. On a company website it reads the company’s public job listings and shows its open roles, how long they have been open, the hiring system (ATS) it uses and the hiring contacts the company publishes. Around that, it gives recruiters a small toolkit: a company card on LinkedIn, Gmail and GitHub, saved people, an off-limits list, text snippets, an email follow-up list, a job post checker, screenshots, sticky notes, keyword highlighting and dark mode.

What does it read?

• The company page you are on. On http and https pages it looks for links to careers pages and job boards, job listing markup, and links to team or contact pages. When “Toolbar count” is on (it is on by default), it does this quick check on each company site you open so it can show a role count on its icon, which includes reading the careers page and job feed that site links to. It skips major search, social, job, email and chat sites. Sites where it finds nothing are forgotten when you close Chrome; companies where it finds jobs are kept in your Chrome profile like any company you check. You can turn “Toolbar count” off in the popup.
• Public job feeds and company pages. To count roles it requests the company’s public home, careers and team pages, single job posts when you use “Peek”, and the public job feeds that hiring systems such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and SmartRecruiters publish for careers pages. When a company’s site does not link a job board, a full check also tries the company’s name as a board address at Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Rippling, SmartRecruiters, Workable and Recruitee, so those services receive the name even if the company does not use them. A check started from a company name (rather than a website) tries likely web addresses for that name, such as name.com. These requests go straight from your browser to those sites, without your cookies or sign ins. Two exceptions: the public job searches of Dayforce and of ADP’s own careers site only work with the visitor session those sites set, so for those two Chrome sends that site’s own cookies, as it would if you opened the job search yourself.
• Hiring contacts. Names, job titles, emails and phone numbers are shown only when the company publishes them on its own pages or job posts. When a company publishes emails in a clear format (for example first.last@company.com), Hiring Radar can suggest an address in the same format for a named contact, and it always labels it as a pattern guess.
• The company profile and the software it uses. Hiring Radar reads the company’s own home page (its description, size and address as the company publishes them, and the website technology the page loads), the software named in its job posts, and its public DNS records through Google Public DNS (dns.google). For company size it may look up the company’s website on Wikidata. To recognise some website technology it checks the names (never the values) of a few cookies the company’s own site sets, such as PHPSESSID or JSESSIONID, on the page you are viewing. Nothing about these checks is stored or sent anywhere.
• News, public records and mentions. When you open a company’s News, Hiring Radar looks up the company’s name in Google News (with its domain and a few words from its description, to keep out unrelated stories), in SEC EDGAR full text search (Form D funding filings) and on USAspending.gov (federal contract awards). About once a week it downloads the public WARN Feed index of layoff notices, hosted on Hugging Face, and matches it on your own computer; nothing about you or the company is sent for that. The Growth signals block searches Reddit and Hacker News for the company’s domain to count mentions in the last 30 days. Only the company’s name or domain is sent to these services. Requests to the SEC carry a User-Agent with Work Insiders’ support address, as the SEC requires.
• H-1B data. H-1B sponsorship comes from public U.S. Department of Labor certified filings and the older USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. A copy of that public data ships inside the extension and is matched on your own computer, so no lookup is sent anywhere.
• The company card on LinkedIn, Gmail and GitHub. On a LinkedIn profile or company page, an open Gmail email or a GitHub profile, the card reads the name, headline or title, company and location shown on that page (on GitHub also the public email and bio), or in Gmail the sender’s name and address and your own address (so it can leave you out), so it can show that company’s hiring. If you save the person, those details are saved with them. It only reads the page in front of you. It never clicks, scrolls, sends messages or collects lists of people on those sites. You can turn the card off for one page, one site or everywhere.
• Gmail auto check. This is on by default. When you open an email from someone at a company (personal addresses such as Gmail or Outlook are skipped), the card runs the same full check as visiting that company’s website yourself, including the lookups described above. The request to the sender’s company website goes from your browser, so like any visit it shows that company your IP address and the time, which can tell them you opened the email. To limit this, it skips Spam, Promotions, Social and Trash, checks each company at most once a week, and you can switch it off under Toolkit, Settings.
• Text boxes, for snippets. When snippets are on, Hiring Radar watches what you type in text boxes for a snippet shortcut such as ;pitch, and replaces the shortcut with your saved text. It does not record, store or send anything you type. It stays out of code editors and rich editors on sites other than Gmail and LinkedIn, and you can turn snippets off everywhere or on chosen sites. It only looks at the few characters before your cursor, skips password and payment card fields, and never keeps them. When a snippet fills in a first name, it reads the first recipient (To or CC) of the email you are writing, or the name on the page you are on.
• Page text, when you use a page tool. Keyword highlighting reads the text of the page you are viewing to mark your keywords. “Find emails on this page”, “Export a list or table to CSV”, “Check the job description on this page” and “Save as a person” read the page or the text you selected, only when you choose them. List export and Find emails are switched off on LinkedIn and Gmail. “Edit this image with Hiring Radar” downloads that one image from the site it is on (without your cookies). “Find emails” also asks Google Public DNS whether the company’s domain accepts email. All of this happens on your computer.
• Open tabs and page links, when you ask. “Check open tabs” reads the web addresses of the tabs open in your window, and “Check every company linked on this page” reads the links on the page, and both put the company websites among them into Bulk check. They run only when you click them.
• A link or text you right click. “Check this company with Hiring Radar” checks the website in that link or the company name you selected.

Hiring Radar never reads passwords or payment card fields, never keeps what you type, and never reads the body of your emails or messages.

What does it store, and where?

Everything Hiring Radar keeps is stored in your own Chrome profile (Chrome extension storage) on your computer. That includes recent company results and role counts over time, your watchlist and alert settings, the statuses, notes and follow up dates you add, tracked roles, saved searches, the people, off limits list, snippets and follow up emails you keep in the Toolkit, your sticky notes, your keywords, dark mode choices, your name, agency and email templates, and your last eight screenshots. None of it is sent to Work Insiders or anyone else.

Sync across your computers. When “Sync statuses, notes and watchlist” is on (it is on by default), company statuses, follow up and last pitched dates, the list of companies you watch and the first 100 characters of up to 300 company notes are also saved in Chrome sync storage. They then appear in Hiring Radar on other computers where you are signed in to Chrome with the same Google account. Chrome sync storage is part of your own Google account and is handled under Google’s privacy policy; Work Insiders cannot read it. Job lists, contacts, Toolkit data, sticky notes and screenshots never sync.

Backup and deleting. You can save your data to a backup file on your computer and restore it. “Delete everything” removes Hiring Radar’s data from this computer and turns sync off, so your other computers keep their own copy. Removing the extension also deletes its data from that computer.

What does Work Insiders receive?

By default, nothing. Hiring Radar never sends your browsing, the companies you check, their jobs or contacts, the people you save, your notes, snippets, emails or screenshots to any Work Insiders server.

Optional anonymous usage counts. You can turn on “Share anonymous usage counts with Work Insiders” (it is off unless you turn it on). When it is on, Hiring Radar sends one summary a week to workinsiders.com: a random install number, the extension version, the week, how many times you used each feature, how many companies you watch, how many of the companies you checked use each hiring system (for example “Greenhouse 12”), and how many checks that week found no jobs, by hiring system. It never includes company names, web addresses, job details, contacts, notes or screenshots. Work Insiders keeps only weekly totals with the install number scrambled and does not keep your IP address. “See exactly what is sent” shows the summary before it goes, and you can turn it off at any time.

When you remove the extension, Chrome opens a short Work Insiders page asking why. Answering is optional, and that visit is covered by the Work Insiders privacy policy, like any link to workinsiders.com you click inside the extension.

Which outside services does it contact?

Links such as the ad libraries, review sites, job site searches, LinkedIn searches and “Open in Gmail” open those sites in a new tab like any link you click. Hiring Radar does not read them. The one exception: when you check a company from an Indeed page, Hiring Radar opens Indeed’s company search, reads which company matches, and goes on to that company’s jobs page.

What about emails, screenshots and files it helps you make?

Pitch, follow up and candidate emails are drafts. “Open in Gmail” and “Email app” hand the draft to Gmail or your own email program, and nothing is sent until you press send there. Hiring Radar never sends email by itself. Screenshots are taken only when you ask; a full page screenshot scrolls the page and briefly hides sticky headers, then puts the page back. Screenshots open in Hiring Radar’s editor on your computer and are never uploaded. CSV, CRM, backup and shared list files are saved to your computer, and files you import are read on your computer.

Why does it ask for these Chrome permissions?

• Read and change data on all websites: to find job board links on the company site you are viewing, to request public job feeds and careers pages from many different hiring systems, to show the company card on LinkedIn, Gmail and GitHub, and to run the page tools you choose (snippets, highlighting, sticky notes, dark mode, screenshots, list export).
• Storage and unlimited storage: to keep results, history, the watchlist and your Toolkit data in your Chrome profile, and to sync statuses, notes and the watchlist when sync is on.
• Scripting and active tab: to read the careers page you have open, run “point to a job”, take screenshots of the page you are viewing, and refresh the card in open tabs after an update.
• Alarms and notifications: to re-check companies on your watchlist and tell you about new roles, follow ups that are due, your daily digest and your weekly call list.
• Offscreen: to read the layout of careers pages and job posts inside the extension.
• Declarative net request (with host access): to add the User-Agent the SEC requires to the extension’s own requests to sec.gov.
• Side panel: to open Hiring Radar beside the page.
• Context menus: to add Hiring Radar’s items to the right click menu.

Limited Use

The use of information that Hiring Radar receives complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. In particular:

• Use: data is used only to provide and improve Hiring Radar’s hiring research features described on this page.
• Transfer: data is not sold or transferred to anyone, except the requests to the services listed above that a feature needs to work, and where required by law.
• No advertising: data is never used or transferred for personalized advertising, retargeting or interest based advertising, or to decide creditworthiness or for lending.
• No human reading: no person at Work Insiders reads your data. The only exception is anonymous weekly totals you choose to share, and anything you send us yourself, such as a support email.

Because almost all data stays on your computer, Work Insiders has nothing to read, sell or share in the first place.

Children

Hiring Radar is a business tool for recruiters and is not directed at children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. Questions: support@workinsiders.com.